94 MEMOIFS OF TEE QUEENSLAND MUSEUM. 



Paracolletes plebeius n. sp. 

 Female. Length about 10 mm. or a little over ; head, thorax, mandibles, 

 and legs black, abdomen shining dark purplish ; flagellum dusky chestnut red beneath, 

 except at base ; hair of vertex, mesothorax, and scutellum black, other hair of head 

 and thorax white ; hair at apex of abdomen black ; clypeus somewhat shining 

 but not polished, with scattered large punctures ; disc of mesothorax shining, with 

 very sparse feeble punctures ; scutellum rather strongly but sparsely punctured, 

 Av-ith a median sulcus ; area of metathorax dull ; tegulse black ; wings faintly dusk3\ 

 not clouded, stigma and nervure dark reddish ; b.n. meeting t.m. ; second s.m. 

 very broad below, receiving first r.n. at or a little before the middle ; tibial scopa 

 black above, white- beneath ; venter of abdomen with white hair. 



" Bright V." {H. W. Davey). Very near to P. providus Sm., but the head is 

 •smaller, the flagellum is differently coloured, and the dark purplish colour of the 

 abdomen is quite different. From P. frontalis Sm. it is loiown by the colour of the 

 scopa. 



The next two species are very close to P. plebems, so that at first I hesitated 

 whether to consider them variations of a single species, or to consider all three races 

 of providus. I believe, however, that they are really distinct. 



Paracolletes incomptus n. sp. 

 Female. Length about 9 mm. ; similar to P. plebeius, but smaller, surface 

 of chqDeus polished, antennae entirely dark ; wings shorter, quite strongly brownish ; 

 stigma with a dark margin, contrasting with the paler centre ; scutellum quite 

 without a median sulcus : area of metathorax shining on and below the transverse 

 ridge, but above dullish, with a shallow median groove, and weak transverse striae ; 

 abdomen dark greenish, the same colour as that of P. providus, but less polished. 



Mundaring, W. Australia, Nov., 1913 {B. Illidrje). This is easily known from 

 P. jyrovidii^s by the smaller size and brownish wings. 



Paracolletes recusus n. sp. 

 Female. Length about 10 mm. ; similar to P. plebeitis, with median sulcus 

 on scutellum and hyaline wings, but antennae black, surface of clypeus polished, and 

 area of metathorax shining. The abdomen is broad, the segments basally black, with 

 the broad apical margins dark greenish, suggesting the Tasmanian P. viridicinctvs 

 Ckll., which is, however, quite distinct. There is much resemblance to P. hackeri Ckll., 

 om which it differs by the dull anterior half of mesothorax, the total absence of 

 ochreous hair in front of tegulae, the shining area of metathorax, and the differently 

 coloured abdomen, the segments of which are more broadly depressed apically, 

 and are not distinctly punctured as in hackeri. 



Tambourine Mountain, Queensland, 27-10-12 {Hacker). 



Paracolletes apicalis n. sp. 

 Female. Length about 8 mm., slender for a female ; head, thorax, legs, and 

 antennae black ; mandibles with a red subapical spot, and with the inner toolh very 



